North Andover, Mass. – Redshirt senior midfielder
Cal Filtch (Marcellus, N.Y./Marcellus) converted a free kick late in the first half to lead the Le Moyne College men's soccer team to a 2-0 upset win over eighth-ranked Merrimack College on Saturday night in Northeast-10 Conference action at Martone-Mejail Field.
Merrimack, which opened the season with seven straight victories, took the first six shots of the game. The Warriors put three of the shots on goal, but sophomore goalkeeper
Ben Beaury (Cohoes, N.Y./LaSalle Institute) was able to turn away each attempt.
Following a foul by the Warriors, the Dolphins struck for the only goal they would need. Filtch lofted the free kick from 46 yards out on the right side of the field into the goal box, where it bounced and skipped by the goalkeeper's right hand and into the left side of the net at the 37:21 mark for his team-best third goal of the season.
As was the case in the first half, the Warriors dominated the second half, but could not put any of their 10 shots into the back of the net. Twice in the opening 2:42 of the period the Warriors put a shot on goal, but Beaury saved both to preserve the shutout.
Le Moyne added an insurance goal with just under six minutes left in the game. On a corner kick from the left side, sophomore forward
Jacob Borssen (Stockholm, Sweden/Solna Gymnasium) served the ball in front of the net, where
Nick Rauscher (Henrietta, N.Y./McQuaid Jesuit) got his head on the ball and put it in the back of the net for his first goal of the season.
Beaury, the reigning Northeast-10 Conference Goalkeeper of the Week, finished the game with five saves to earn his 12th career shutout. The 12 clean slates tie him with Craig Palleschi '02 for the fifth-most in the program's history. Lucas Rezende made just one save in suffering his first career loss. The Warriors, who averaged 3.57 goals per game in their first seven games of the season, registered a 17-3 advantage in shots, while taking five of the game's six corner kicks.
Le Moyne (5-2, 2-2 NE-10), which handed a top-10 team its first loss of the season for the second straight year (#1 Southern New Hampshire, October 25, 2014), returns home to face Saint Anselm College on Tuesday at 3:00 p.m.
